How can I update jenkins plugins from the terminal?

Question

I am trying to create a bash script for setting up Jenkins. Is there any way to update a plugin list from the Jenkins terminal?

At first setup there is no plugin availab

Answer 1

Here is how you can deploy Jenkins CI plugins using Ansible, which of course is used from the terminal. This code is a part of roles/jenkins_ci/tasks/main.yaml:

- name: Plugins
  with_items:                             # PLUGIN NAME
  - name: checkstyle                      # Checkstyle
  - name: dashboard-view                  # Dashboard View
  - name: dependency-check-jenkins-plugin # OWASP Dependency Check
  - name: depgraph-view                   # Dependency Graph View
  - name: deploy                          # Deploy
  - name: emotional-jenkins-plugin        # Emotional Jenkins
  - name: monitoring                      # Monitoring
  - name: publish-over-ssh                # Publish Over SSH
  - name: shelve-project-plugin           # Shelve Project
  - name: token-macro                     # Token Macro
  - name: zapper                          # OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP)
  sudo: yes
  get_url: dest="{{ jenkins_home }}/plugins/{{ item.name | mandatory }}.jpi"
           url="https://updates.jenkins-ci.org/latest/{{ item.name }}.hpi"
           owner=jenkins group=jenkins mode=0644
  notify: Restart Jenkins

This is a part of a more complete example that you can find at: https://github.com/sakaal/service_platform_ansible/blob/master/roles/jenkins_ci/tasks/main.yaml

Feel free to adapt it to your needs.